Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Today at 11:47AM at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, Kenneth Biros was the first person ever to die by a one-drug method of lethal injection. (& I'd like to say, on the behalf of all Ohio taxpayers, you're welcome.)

Unfortunately, that drug was not a hot chunk of lead administered behind the ear, but hey - a dead monster is still a dead monster, right?

CO2 would hardly be humane. Your body elicits a panic response to CO2, that is why CO@ poisoning isn't a silent killer like CO poisoning. While these folks might not deserve a humane death, it is wrong to suggest CO2 is humane.

I favor the method of China; a bullet to the head and a bill for the cost to the killer's next of kin.

@injectionFirst one in the US...There already is a saint who was martyred by a one-gramm phenol injection, straight into his heart.

As to , it CO wouldn't fly.

It has a unsavoury past, anyone with some grasp of history will surely know why.

Won't be used for the same reason USA won't kill people with a bullet to the back of the head.

High explosive is the way to go. You can't feel death by them. If your head implodes faster than the nerves can transmit pain.. and as far as I know, plastic explosives are not particularily expensive.

I addressed that question on my blog. Basically, because it has to be quick, painless, work EVERY time, medical like (but no medically trained personnel may beinvolved). And even then, the anti death-penalty activists will find something to complain about. It is so difficult to make most jurisdictions say "F- it" and do something else.

Those opposed to the death penalty can not win the argument based on logic, so they attack the methods, making something so simple difficult enough that it is easier and cheaper to house these cretins forever than it is to kill them and be done with it. ....just another case to these idjits letting emotion triumph over reasoning, and ignoring the unintended consequenses.

I figure we don't put cosmetics on fluffy bunnies, so we shouldn't test them on fluffy bunnies either. Why not use death row inmates for all those tests? That way, we can see how the chemicals will really react with the intended consumers. And if the scientists wanna mix up a few really painful batches of what-not to test on them, I'm not opposed to that either....